I’m currently about 200 pages into With Blood Upon the Sands, the second book in Bradley Beaulieu’s “Song of the Shattered Sands” fantasy series. It’s good reading, and the Arabia-inspired fantasy world is a nice change of pace from the stock medieval European setting you see in most high fantasy.

“Please, Janie. None of your friends are hot enough to be on Riverdale.”

Rosario Dawson would be pretty high on the list of people sexy enough to make a woman realize she’s bisexual.

The Lodge family has ended up being a weird mix of aesthetics, between the Anglo surname repurposed for a Latino family that is now very clearly being portrayed like an old-school Italian mafia clan.

Dagwood deserves it. He’s lazy and hardly seems to do any work.

Dagwood deserves it. He’s lazy and hardly seems to do any work.

Dagwood deserves it. He’s lazy and hardly seems to do any work.

The storyline around Chic has all the makings of one of those Lifetime movies about teens being introduced to dangerous habits, which is exactly the kind of vibe I most enjoy from this show, so I’m onboard.

He was excellent in Season 2.

One thing I’ve always found a bit off about the way this series handles morality is that the characters don’t really focus on trying to figure out the official moral system of this universe, which is, for their purposes, the only one that actually matters for their chosen goal of getting to the real Good Place.

Chidi’s unwillingness to lie rang false to me, seeing as he’s been lying constantly throughout this series.

Ah, this show, always a mile a minute.

Amazon no longer loves dick.

I’ve seen people suggest that but, for this specific project at least, I’m not sure that really works, since Fire and Fury’s biggest selling point is all the tales of Trump’s incompetence. He’s simultaneously the main draw and the thing that would pose serious tonal problems.

Assuming they’re planning to do this as a drama, I’m not quite sure how you would handle any sort of dramatic presentation featuring Trump as a central character, because, simply put, he is an absurd individual who is impossible to take remotely seriously (even when the consequences of his behaviour are serious…

Evans has kind of walked that back, and given the nature of RDJ’s role he can probably keep playing it a while yet anyway (the suit is the power).

I doubt it. I expect there may well be some version of the restoration of the universe with the Infinity Gauntlet, but not in a way that actually alters the status quo. Marvel Studios doesn’t have any reason to do that (not to mention, it would cause interruptions for their more recent wave of new hero movies).

With recent mergers and acquisitions, it’s looking like X-Men: Dark Phoenix is probably going to be the last entry in the main line of X-Men films that began way back in 2000 (we’re on our third Hulk and third Spider-Man since then), though at least one other FOX film will come out afterward. I hope it takes things…

It really ties the film together.

I still have PTSD from some of Criss’ acting on Glee, so I’m glad to hear that he’s apparently improved since then.